Farmers Union Results Survey Shows Broad Compliance
A Jackson News summary notes the state Farmers Union convention concluded last week with most of President Hightower s recommendations carried out. Key actions include plans for a large produce exchange, strict anti segregation stance, mandatory cotton grading training for warehouse managers, and efforts to increase cotton bag strength and shift to cotton sacks. Proposals to raise dues, fund a union paper, and enlarge public school appropriations faced narrow support, with referendum votes planned within sixty days.
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Farmers’ Union
Hightower
Retail Merchants’ Association
A & M. College
Jackson News
Schoolboy Definitions from the London Express Howlers
The London Express prints a column of schoolboy misstatements from the University Correspondent. Examples include joking misdefinitions of Habeas corpus and Magna Carta and humorous reversals of historical figures and places.
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London Express
Switzerland
England
Billswater
Derwentwater
Bayswater
London
Virgil
Homer
James Purvis of Lynwood laid to rest in Rock Bluff
James Purvis, nearly four score, died after three marriages leaving twelve children, seven surviving. A Confederate veteran, he enlisted 1861, rose to 3rd Lieutenant, later served as Rock Bluff Baptist deacon and county treasurer, state senator. Funeral drew large crowd. community honors his faith and civic service.
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James Purvis
Lynwood
Rock Bluff Church
Céth
Rock Bluff
Bro. Burvis
C. E. Bass
Why Mississippians Must Remain Poor
A regional editorial argues Mississippi should favor home production and buying local to curb outflow of dollars. It critiques reliance on northern and eastern goods, highlighting a chain of imported items used daily and urging support for home factories, crops, and products. It also includes health tips and a note on chocolate as a pantry staple.
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the Clarion-Ledger
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Boston
Ohio
Connecticut
Missouri
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St. Louis
Rhode Island
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Tennessee
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Massachusetts
Jerusalem
Its Up to You Hardware Store Brings Wide Selection to Brandon
A Brandon hardware store proclaims a broad and deep line of goods from hoes and axes to barbed wire and crocker y. The ad emphasizes a separate hardware department and aims to prove demand for a complete local hardware store able to compete with Jackson and Meridian.
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Enqinrer
Brandon
Jackson
Meridian
Agendeer
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S. H. Williams
S. A. Williams, Brandon Miss
Rankin County
Jackson Hardware Company
Jackson, Miss
Pearl Street
Ses
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Suez Canal
Clive
Oliver Cromwell
William the Conqueror
Brandon, Miss
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